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TORMAX

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 26, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for TORMAX →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Losttrust on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2023-09-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

TORMAX Quality for Demanding Customers TORMAX installed Europe’s first automatic door in 1951. Today a leading manufacturer of automatic door systems worldwide with 25 Group companies and 500+ distributors. TORMAX automatic door systems are found in office buildings, shopping malls, hotels and restaurants, department stores, airports and train stations, on ships and in apartment buildings – in short, in hundreds of thousands of buildings around the world. TORMAX is a division of the LANDERT Group, a privately owned Group of companies, characterised by innovation, quality and genuine entrepreneurship. The LANDERT Group was founded in 1924 with its headquarters in Bulach near Zurich, Switzerland, and employs over 1000 staff members across its two divisions SERVAX (customised electric drives) and TORMAX (automatic door systems).

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 26, 2023

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-09-26

losttrust

According to ransomware.live, LostTrust is a double-extortion ransomware operation that emerged in March 2023 and publicized over 50 victims within days of launching its leak site in September 2023, believed to be a rebrand of the MetaEncryptor gang, primarily targeting manufacturing, professional services, construction, and education sectors with 71% of known victims in the US.

53 victims claimed globally53 tracked hereFull profile →